There’s glory in it, he acknowledged. Dagda Mor! It’s why I like to fight. When the battle-frenzy fills you, you feel like a god, I think. He paused, remembering. But then you hear a friend’s voice be...
We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.
Men will heed words spoken from one in a position of authority that they disdain from other sources.
On my knees, I touched the tip of my tongue to my lips, catching a drop of his seed. Pleasure-chamber. My very skin shivered, anticipating the lash. As you wish, my lord, I whispered. It is not needfu...
One never thinks, until one is badly injured, about the myriad intricate ways in which the parts of one’s body are connected.
So I leave flowers; spring flowers, then summer flowers. I gather the red and orange and yellow trumpet flowers, for a trumpet is a thing that makes a loud noise like a shout, and I tie their vines to...
Poets in their chambers began to scribble notes.
Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty… and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our s...
By morning, Joscelin was resigned. You know, betimes I think you are a little mad, Imriel no Montreve, he said to me in the courtyard outside the stable, holding the Bastard's reins.You never said tha...
Why did Ysandre send you? he asked softly, testing. I pushed my chair back from the table, struggling to my feet, fighting the dark blood-tide. Somewhere, I thought, listening, somewhere Joscelin is t...
Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every da...
I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.
I took a slice of melon and perched on the edge of a couch, watching them both, patently uncomfortable with the undefined nature of my role here.
There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.
There's some sort of Soothsayers' Code that prevents soothsayers from soothsaying on a day-to-day basis, when it might, you know, avert this kind of ordinary, everyday tragedy. Something about the law...
It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need.
Lifting his head, Quincel de Morhban looked at me with something like awe. It’s true, he whispered. What they say … Kushiel’s Dart. It’s all true. Yes, my lord, I murmured; if he’d told me the moon wa...
Years ago, I had a teacher who taught me that all ways lead to the Way, I said slowly, thinking. That there is a great truth behind all the truths of the world, and the faces of the gods are masks tha...
My taste is for spices, and not sweets.
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